Thursday, April 30, 2009

How should I feel after finding a yahoo personal ad that my fiance of 3 yrs

I came across it while incredibly bored. I thought I’d check to see if my brother had his ad still on the yahoo site, so I could be nosy and read what he’d written this time.. The search I did was for men in the area, aged around my brothers age. The first one that popped up was my fiance. Picture and all. Said he lived alone, with pets. He lives with me and OUR pets. Said he was single. Well, what am I? I confronted him, he said someone else did it, argued, then said it was 5 years old, (well the pic was, I admit that, it was taken back about 45 lbs ago), and the ad was NOT there 5 months ago, the last time I had searched for my brother’s profile.I made my fiance delete his profile (while he played dumb, I sat and instructed him to log in his email, edit profile, delete!) I’m not stupid by all means, I helped my brother with his profile, and I know how it operates thru your email, etc. But my fiance evidently thinks I’m computer stupid, because now he insists that it had to have magically appeared somehow, and that he didn’t do it! I told him that the web is not LuckyCharm Land and things don’t just ‘magically appear’. UGH> I have lost my trust in him, and now I’m thinking back on days he’d gone to town for something and was gone for 3 hrs, or how many times he’s walked away from me when his cell phone rang, to talk further out in the yard, or how many times I’ve been at work trying to call home with no answer, only to get ahold of him later on and he’d say he was sleeping and didn’t hear the phone.I’m driving myself nuts, and I don’t know how to stop it! I’m hurt, and he’s in denial. I’m doubting our relationship, and he doesn’t seem to care. He would never apologize, he thinks his denial is enough. How many other times has he lied to me! (I’ve seen his adamant ‘denial face’ before.)Oh, how can I stop questioning myself, I feel like I don’t know if he’s actually cheated or not? If I hadn’t been bored that day, I may not have searched for my brother’s ad, and still wouldn’t have known about my fiance’s ad. Questions, questions…I have thought about walking away, but I have so much time, energy, and work invested in this relationship. Everything we’ve bought together is in both names, I’ve completely landscaped the yards into beauty, and so much has merged. I don’t know why we havent’ gotten married yet, just too busy I guess. We’ve been living together as a couple, just haven’t said the I do’s.I have thought about revenge, placing an ad telling locals what he was doing behind my back. Not sure if yahoo personals would post it.I guess I’m through the crying part, now I’m at the mad stage. Any ideas out there???Note to add: the ad placed had said "active within the past week", and it is his house we live in now, I was renting when we met and he invited me here. The pets are 3 dogs (His, Mine, and an Ours) and the cat is mine. But we call them all Ours.The ad was not there 5 months ago, the last time I had searched for my brother. It was an old pic, but not an old ad.I guess I'm not through with the crying part. Reading some of your responses has me crying again. I am taking this very seriously, and having few freinds I can confide in, I am taking your advise to heart. Thank you everyone for giving me an outsiders view. I'm too tied up on the inside

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Yahoo Personals

Yahoo! Personals recognizes that online dating is a journey that can be challenging but fun, daunting but endlessly rewarding -- because with online dating, you can go from meeting singles to meeting your love match. Every experience matters. Yahoo! Personals knows that true love and happiness may not happen for everyone, but that it can happen for anyone.
Yahoo! Personals, your online dating site for dating services and matchmaking capabilities, is the online dating site that understands that the singles who take this journey, does so with their own unique motivations, expectations, and goals. This is true for single men and single women, whether you want to find a date for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating.
With that in mind, Personals provides a comfortable environment that lets you express the truest you so that you can make a true connection -- and meet a love match or the right person for you.Our powerful matching technology will deliver compatible singles from our vibrant singles community. Our features give you the most convenient way to find compatible people, even a love match. And our brand attracts new and interesting singles every day. While total happiness and love might not happen for everyone, we believe and we work hard every day to ensure that it can happen to anyone

Friday, April 24, 2009

So Long, YAHOO GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed

GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that achieved fame in the mid-90s, died Thursday at the Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley. GeoCities was 15 years old.
GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined.
GeoCities: 1995 - 2009
GeoCities was born as "Beverly Hills Internet" in the winter of 1995. Its parents, David Bohnett and John Rezner, wanted to create a virtual community that mimicked the real world, with pages hosted in "cyber cities" and other similarly nauseating concepts.
Both teenagers and first-generation Internet dorks (known then as "former SysOps") flocked to the service, setting up personal pages in the "cyber cities" of their choice. Despite GeoCities' built-in watermarks and on-page advertisements, the site's popularity continued to climb, and the shame its users should have felt for creating abhorrent content within its servers continued to remain repressed
One year later, in 1999, GeoCities underwent its largest transformation when the yet-to-become-a-punchline company Yahoo purchased it for $4.7 billion. Yahoo removed many of GeoCities' trademark assets, including the "cyber city" foundation of the service, and attempted to transform GeoCities into a profit-producing venture.
It was around this time that GeoCities began showing the first symptoms of the medical issues that would plague it for the remainder of its life. GeoCities grew weaker by the month. The proliferation of low-cost hosting options, combined with the increasing popularity of social network-style services in place of personal home pages, only contributed to its demise.
GeoCities is survived by two cousins, Angelfire and Tripod, along with an uncle, Jeeves. All three are believed to be terminally ill.
Of the 12 remaining GeoCities users, only one was available for comment. "Holy crap!" said the user, a red-faced fellow named Strong Bad. "The scroll buttons and animated GIFs on that site were unbeatable."
The GeoCities site is expected to remain functional through midyear as a tribute to its life. Funeral arrangements are now pending.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Online YAHOO Personals

You deserve a matchmaker to find love. At Yahoo! Personals -- your dedicated matchmaking online dating site for great dating services -- we believe that if you put yourself out there, you'll meet singles you're looking for -- single men, single women, local singles, even a love match. By taking a personal approach to personal ads, you can find a date and find singles for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, gay dating, or senior dating. With our matchmaking capabilities, you can find that unique person who gets what you're all about, quirks and all. That person who says what you were about to say, who isn't mortified when you make a social blunder, whose scent you'd like to bottle, and whose smile you'd like to wake up to every day. That's why we give you an audience filled with local singles, the tools to find and meet single women and single men, and lots of features that help you find your love match. With Personals as your matchmaker, you can find the kind of first date that lead to second dates and beyond. You still might meet the love of your life at a coffeehouse or gas station. But with Yahoo! Personals, instead of sitting around waiting for that to happen, you'll be getting dates from online dating and having a fabulous time.
We believe single men and single women everywhere deserve to be with the local singles they're most compatible with, and with the local singles who want the same things in a relationship they do. All of us at Yahoo! Personals are passionate about helping great singles connect more easily with those they'd love to date.
In a culture as busy as ours, the Internet offers tremendous potential for our dating services and for us as a dating site to help you meet singles you might not have discovered. It offers the ease of introducing you to all kinds of dates, whether you're looking for singles for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating. But great online dating doesn't just happen. To make the most of your time and to help you find a date you're really looking for, we carefully bring together -- like a great matchmaker -- the right combination of singles and powerful tools.
The first step is having enough terrific people to choose from, and that has always been one of the great things about Yahoo! At Yahoo! Personals, you'll never feel like you're walking into a quiet house and calling out, "Anybody home?"
Next, we don't impose one rigid process on you. We respect that your tastes, passions, and interests are unique, and that no one knows better than you what kind of singles you're looking for, or what's best for you. We give you great options and tools to find the single men and single women you're seeking -- on your own kind of online dating terms.
And we don't believe in putting single men and single women through boot camp to find a date. There's enough anxiety and work in everyday life as it is. Our matchmaking approach preserves and creates those real-life moments of serendipity, surprise, delight, and just plain fun that can get singles jazzed. Remember the thrill of meeting singles who captured your attention? Then, as you came to know them, you discovered you wanted to spend more time with them. Our goal as a matchmaker, if you will, is to make sure you have more experiences like this.
Finally -- and very importantly -- our online Personals site believes in making promises about online dating we can really fulfill. We could promise you the love of your life, but in reality chemistry is always something that you and your date have to discover and build. What we do promise is that based on your personal profile, personality, and relationship goals, the local singles you end up meeting for coffee or dinner will be the best matches for you. And when it comes to dating, you can't take a more promising first step.
If we had to compress a matchmaker or matchmaking philosophy into a motto we'd simply say "Better first dates. More second dates." If that sounds like what you're looking for, you're at the right online dating site.
Personals Ads for Singles
Online personal ads for singles, unlike newspaper personal ads for singles, give you lots of flexibility. Create and update your online Personals profile, search, and make connections for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating -- all when it's convenient for you, all with personal ads you can change anytime. How do you write a Yahoo! Personals personal profile that attracts the right single men or single women for you? How do you pick the right photos for online dating? How do you make connections with other local singles to find the right love match for you? You'll find answers here at Yahoo! Personals as well as great ideas for online dating.
More About Our Dating Site
Yahoo! Personals recognizes that online dating is a journey that can be challenging but fun, daunting but endlessly rewarding -- because with online dating, you can go from meeting singles to meeting your love match. Every experience matters. Yahoo! Personals knows that true love and happiness may not happen for everyone, but that it can happen for anyone.
Yahoo! Personals, your online dating site for dating services and matchmaking capabilities, is the online dating site that understands that the singles who take this journey, does so with their own unique motivations, expectations, and goals. This is true for single men and single women, whether you want to find a date for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating.
With that in mind, Personals provides a comfortable environment that lets you express the truest you so that you can make a true connection -- and meet a love match or the right person for you. Our powerful matching technology will deliver compatible singles from our vibrant singles community. Our features give you the most convenient way to find compatible people, even a love match. And our brand attracts new and interesting singles every day. While total happiness and love might not happen for everyone, we believe and we work hard every day to ensure that it can happen to anyone.
A Final Few Words
Online dating is fun, especially when you consider a dating site your matchmaker. When a dating site has powerful matchmaking capabilities like Yahoo! Personals does, it doesn't matter whether you want to find a date for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating. It's just a lot easier and a lot more fun to find a date, even a love match. As a dating site that offers great dating services, online Personals gives you the tools for making it easier to meet singles, especially local singles, and find a date.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Happiness on your own terms can happen

You deserve a matchmaker to find love. At Yahoo! Personals -- your dedicated matchmaking online dating site for great dating services -- we believe that if you put yourself out there, you'll meet singles you're looking for -- single men, single women, local singles, even a love match. By taking a personal approach to personal ads, you can find a date and find singles for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, gay dating, or senior dating. With our matchmaking capabilities, you can find that unique person who gets what you're all about, quirks and all. That person who says what you were about to say, who isn't mortified when you make a social blunder, whose scent you'd liketo bottle, and whose smile you'd like to wake up to every day. That's why we give you an audience filled with local singles, the tools to find and meet single women and single men, and lots of features that help you find your love match. With Personals as your matchmaker, you can find the kind of first date that lead to second dates and beyond. You still might meet the love of your life at a coffeehouse or gas station. But with Yahoo! Personals, instead of sitting around waiting for that to happen, you'll be getting dates from online dating and having a fabulous time.
Our Online Dating Site and Dating Services
We believe single men and single women everywhere deserve to be with the local singles they're most compatible with, and with the local singles who want the same things in arelationship they do. All of us at Yahoo! Personals are passionate about helping great singles connect more easily with those they'd love to date.
In a culture as busy as ours, the Internet offers tremendous potential for our dating services and for us as a dating site to help you meet singles you might not have discovered. It offers the ease of introducing you to all kinds of dates, whether you're looking for singles for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating. But great online dating doesn't just happen. To make the most of your time and to help you find a date you're really looking for, we carefully bring together-- like a great matchmaker -- the right combination of singles and powerful tools.
The first step is having enough terrific people to choose from, and that has always been one of the great things about Yahoo! At Yahoo! Personals, you'll never feel like you're walking into a quiet house and calling out, "Anybody home?"
Next, we don't impose one rigid process on you. We respect that your tastes, passions, and interests are unique, and that no one knows better than you what kind of singles you're looking for, or what's best for you. We give you great options and tools to find the single men and single women you're seeking -- on your own kind of online dating terms.
And we don't believe in putting single men and single women through boot camp to find a date. There's enough anxiety and work in everyday life as it is. Our matchmaking approach preserves and creates those real-life moments of serendipity, surprise, delight, and just plain fun that can get singles jazzed. Remember the thrill of meeting singles whocaptured your attention? Then, as you came to know them, you discovered you wanted to spend more time with them. Our goal as a matchmaker, if you will, is to make sure you havemore experiences like this.
Finally -- and very importantly -- our online Personals site believes in making promises about online dating we can really fulfill. We could promise you the love of your life, but in reality chemistry is always something that you and your date have to discover and build. What we do promise is that based on your personal profile, personality, and relationship goals, the local singles you end up meeting for coffee or dinner will be the best matches for you. And when it comes to dating, you can't take a more promising first step.
If we had to compress a matchmaker or matchmaking philosophy into a motto we'd simply say "Better first dates. More second dates." If that sounds like what you're looking for, you're at the right online dating site.
Personals Ads for Singles
Online personal ads for singles, unlike newspaper personal ads for singles, give you lots of flexibility. Create and update your online Personals profile, search, and make connections for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating -- all when it's convenient for you, all with personal ads you can change anytime. How do you write a Yahoo! Personals personal profile that attracts the right single men or single women for you? How do you pick the right photos for online dating? How do you make connections with other local singles to find the right love match for you? You'll find answers here at Yahoo! Personals as well as great ideas for online dating.
More About Our Dating Site
Yahoo! Personals recognizes that online dating is a journey that can be challenging but fun, daunting but endlessly rewarding -- because with online dating, you can go from meeting singles to meeting your love match. Every experience matters. Yahoo! Personals knows that true love and happiness may not happen for everyone, but that it can happen for anyone.
Yahoo! Personals, your online dating site for dating services and matchmaking capabilities, is the online dating site that understands that the singles who take this journey, does so with their own unique motivations, expectations, and goals. This is true for single men and single women, whether you want to find a date for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating.
With that in mind, Personals provides a comfortable environment that lets you express the truest you so that you can make a true connection -- and meet a love match or the right person for you.Our powerful matching technology will deliver compatible singles from our vibrant singles community. Our features give you the most convenient way to find compatible people, even a love match. And our brand attracts new and interesting singles every day. While total happiness and love might not happen for everyone, we believe and we work hard every day to ensure that it can happen to anyone.
A Final Few Words
Online dating is fun, especially when you consider a dating site your matchmaker. When a dating site has powerful matchmaking capabilities like Yahoo! Personals does, it doesn't matter whether you want to find a date for Christian dating, Jewish dating, Asian dating, black dating, senior dating, or gay dating. It's just a lot easier and a lot more fun

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Yahoo! Personal


What is the Yahoo! Personals Performance Partner Program?
The Yahoo! Performance Partner Program is a fast and easy way for you to generate income. If you have a web site, you can earn money by promoting Yahoo! Personals using banner and text links we provide you. Every time a visitor clicks from your site to Yahoo! Personals and subscribes, you earn commissions.

How do I join?
It's easy! First, read the terms of our Affiliate Agreement and complete an Application Form to apply to become a Yahoo! Personals Performance Partner. If you are accepted, just copy and paste provided HTML codes onto your web site to display links to Yahoo! Personals. The links will contain a unique account code to credit you for subscriptions that are generated from your site. When a visitor clicks on one of these links and purchases a subscription from Yahoo! Personals, Commission Junction will track your code, calculate your commissions, and provide you with real-time reporting and monthly commission checks.

Will my web site be accepted?
We carefully review each web site prior to accepting it into the Yahoo! Personals Performance Partner Program. Criteria for acceptance may include (but are not limited to) audience demographics, site traffic, site content and design, and the likelihood of success in our program. We may reject any application in our sole discretion.
Please keep in mind that we are looking for web sites that are live and fully functional. If your site is under construction, please apply when you your site is live and fully functional.
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What is Yahoo! Personals policy on adult content?
The Yahoo! Personals Performance Partner Program prohibits sites with adult content and reserves the right to audit and review member sites for compliance to our policies. If your site(s) are deemed objectionable, we reserve the right to reject an application or revoke a site's membership at any time.
Can I participate if I live outside the U.S.?
Yes. We welcome Performance Partners from many countries so long as they primarily target U.S. and Canadian customers. Please be aware, however, that the Yahoo! Personals service is for U.S. and Canadian residents only and that customers who subscribe to our service must pay in U.S. or Canadian dollars.

Is a web site required to become a member?
Yes. Without a web site, Yahoo! Personals will have no means of evaluating your application.

Who will manage and administer the Yahoo! Personals Performance Partner Program?
Yahoo! Personals has teamed with Commission Junction to provide you with trusted third-party tracking, real-time reporting, and monthly commission payments. Once you are accepted into our program, you'll be taken to Commission Junction's site to create your own secure, password-protected account.
This account will give you access to a wide variety of Yahoo! Personals text and banner links. Additionally, you will have the ability to view your account activity, calculate your commissions earned, and run reports that provide statistics on all your activities, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What if I have more than one web site?
To add multiple sites to your account, log in to your Commission Junction account and add additional sites under Website Settings on the Account tab.
What are my responsibilities as a Yahoo! Personals Performance Partner?
To drive potential subscribers to Yahoo! Personals! To keep track of how your links perform, be sure to follow the statistics of your site's performance via your Commission Junction account.

What are the responsibilities of Yahoo! Personals?
We will provide you with the tools and support you need to maximize sales across your site. We'll provide highly performing banners and text links, as well as innovative strategies for converting visitors into Yahoo! Personals subscribers. We will continually strive to keep Yahoo! Personals one of the most popular and innovative online personals services on the Internet

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Dating Advice

Online personals is a new experience for many people. To help them get started and to inform and entertain everyone who uses Yahoo! Personals, We offer articles, how-tos, success stories and tips from personals users, and answers to questions from readers